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US Plant Patent PP17264

Ingbviol

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingbviol’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 23, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 8, 2025. This patent earned 15 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17264, the photograph of Ingbviol printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17264, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP17264
Filed
September 8, 2005
Granted
December 5, 2006
Expires
September 23, 2025
Inventor
SANDERS MONICA MARIA ADELHEID

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingbviol’ characterized by its large red-purple flowers, early flowering, dark green foliage, nicely rounded shaped plant habit with excellent basal branching character and good vigor.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingbviol’, as substantially illustrated and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17264 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.